The Press., 1887-08-11
ONE VIEW OF THE NATTER.

A lady who has won an almost national reputation as an educator of young women
 has resigned her place Rs principal of Wellesley College. She isgoing to marry.
 It is the destiny of mankind (which in- cludes Womankind) to marry. The few sporadic cases of single lives that come to our notice prove nothing to the contrary of this sweeping assertion. These are the exceptions that prove the rule; SO excep- tional are they as to constitute class by themselves. There are no pursuits or vo- cations in life that man must needs drop when he enters the marriage state. But over the door of the temple of Hymen may, OF should be, the inscription for women : Abandon your trade all ye who enter here." That there are married women who carry on business as "sole traders" is notorious that spinsters and bachelors, fix: ed and confirmed, do exist But, ss be- fore, these exceptional instances prove nothing. In the women's millennium, pos sibly. men will do their share of house. work, sewing at home, baby .tending, mak- ing calls and overseeing the domestic ser vice. In that happy age women will not only write novels, sell dry goods, run type writers, practice law and betdevil the tele- phone, but they will be telegraph hnemen, carters, hack drivers, track-layers, machin- iRts, letter-carriers and perhaps bass sing CTS. But until then the generality of wo- men will find that they cannot marry aud continue in vacations that cannot be pur- sued at home. A woman pleading in g court room, with her baby within hearing distance, would be an absDrdity, although the world might be educated up to it. With her baby at home all day she would be playing the part of an unnatural moth CT. With no baby at all, the race would be doomed to extinction unless women in mems employments were, as now, the ex- ception and not the rule. In short, the married state. is incompatible with female activity in the general industrial pursuits of life.
 The moral of this is obvious. Women know this, and, while it is silly to say that they are always expecting to enter matri' mony, every sensible woman, as every sensible man, accepts the common condi
 tions of humanity. No properly -consti. tuted man should evade the responsibilities of the marriage state. Perhaps we might go further and say that no properly con. stituted man does evade them. And this dictum necessarily includes the oppoAitG sex for one of the blessings of masculin
 ity is that one man may not marry anoth
 ar. And matrimony being the rule, speak
 ing in large sense, of all mankind, it fol
 lows that women must not hope to succeed in lines of activity incompatible with the married state. As a rule, they do not sue ceed, and they do not expect to. They take up these t-of-heHne vacations as | temporary expedient. Of course, there are many men who drift into and out o
 their changing employments; and there are not few who become fixed in theii eallings without having considered thu matter with deliberation. But the highest
 success in life can only be achieved by men who choose their business, or trade
 or profession with anxious reference tC their fitness therefor. But if a man, who thinks he might be compelled to give uI the calling of plumber, in ease of hiI hereafter marrying Gas he hopes to marry)
 would make very poor port of plumber fl he should persist in learning that lucrative trade. The fact is that permanency ir I any pursuit is essential to success. And women choosing 8 vocation in life should choose one that they may follow under al
 circumstances of health. The study oi any other calling is time and money l thrown away.-NeOnrk AdVerttser.